{"id":743509,"date":"2026-06-18T02:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743509\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:02:15","slug":"football-news-2026-sam-kerr-signs-with-gotham-fc-in-nwsl-after-leaving-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/743509\/","title":{"rendered":"Football news 2026, Sam Kerr signs with Gotham FC in NWSL after leaving Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotham FC made a massive addition to the roster when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/person\/samantha-may-kerr-1m3w\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Kerr<\/a> of Australia was added on a free transfer following a productive six-and-a-half seasons with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/chelsea-fc-1m1g\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> in the Women\u2019s Super League, multiple outlets reported.<\/p>\n<p>During her stay in England, Aussie champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/football\/news-2026-sam-kerr-breaks-chelsea-goals-record-wsl-video-result-20260504-p5ztdi.html\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerr scored 116 goals in 158 matches and helped Chelsea to five league titles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/71969db6de3624151bb4276e9179c39efb5e7f9f.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Sam Kerr farewelled Chelsea and Stamford Bridge last month.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The club also won three FA Cup titles and three League Cup trophies.<\/p>\n<p>The move to Gotham comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/football\/sam-kerr-farewell-2026-breaks-club-all-time-goal-scoring-record-chelsea-v-manchester-united-20260516-p5zxrx.html\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerr\u2019s Chelsea contract expired<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move marks Kerr\u2019s return to the Gotham franchise, which was known as Sky Blue FC when she played with the club from 2015-17.<\/p>\n<p>She scored 28 goals during her previous NWSL stint in 40 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Gotham is the defending NWSL champion but is fifth in the league standings at 6-3-2 (21 points).<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Wave FC leads the league at 8-1-4 (25 points).<\/p>\n<p>Kerr, 32, also spent time with the NWSL\u2019s Chicago Red Stars from 2018-19 and scored 35 goals in 43 matches before moving to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The club and Kerr are yet to confirm the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gotham FC made a massive addition to the roster when Sam Kerr of Australia was added on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-743509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}